Lee Scott

Personal statement

Lee Scott is Subject Leader of Creative Computing at Bath Spa University and a creative researcher with a specialism in digital opera. His work is transdisciplinary in nature, combining songwriting, animation, games and performance art with computer science and software development.

Lee's research examines the collision between opera and digital media, and he is approaching completion of a PhD in this context. Contributing works include The Village (Scott 2015), a participatory opera for the web that evolves across 5 weekly episodes, and The Imaginary Voyage (Hugill, Scott, Lawrence 2013), an interactive online work developed during an sKTP with The Opera Group that exploits principles of the semantic web to guide the user through a repository of audio and visual materials. His current project, Fragments, extends opera into locative media and gaming, and considers film and headphone targeted music/sound design as a way of situating the player in a fictional past.

Academic qualifications

• MA Birmingham City University
• BSc (Hons) Birmingham City University
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• CertGSMD(P) Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Technical skill set

Web and mobile development (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Swift), software development (Java, C++), audio engineering and post-production (Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Waves) sound design (Max/MSP, Ableton Live), physical computing (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, bespoke), visual coding (Processing, Pure Data) animation and 3D asset creation (3ds Max, After Effects, Flash, Spine), still image (Photoshop, Illustrator), live sound and lighting, interactive installation (digital and physical).

Other external roles

• Reviewer, International Journal of Creative Computing (Inderscience)
• Link Tutor, BSc Creative Computing (UAE) Future College, United Arab Emirates
• Contributor, The Conversation: 
  • Why the Renaissance man - and woman - is making a comeback (April, 2016)
  • Why Niantic didn't need marketing to make Pokémon Go viral (July, 2016).

Teaching specialism

Teaching at undergraduate and Master's level is focused largely on the creative application of digital technologies to drive artistic, social and cultural development.

Supervisory and lecturing work covers the fundamentals of computer science, programming, interactive digital media, emerging technologies, web and mobile app development, digital culture and practice, and physical computing.

Current scholarship

• Opera for the web and mobile media
• ASMR and music (composition and notation)
• Machine learning in storytelling
• Various projects in serious games.